[QUOTE=biker1;1879322]I am not missing any point. The Developer will not pay. Any additional costs will be passed through to the buyers. By the way, I don’t have a problem with that. Did you work for the Federal or a state government?
Stop with the disenfranchised voter rhetoric. If someone wanted to vote in the primary they could have by changing their affiliation.[/QUOTE
You have done a remarkably good job in attacking a statement that I never made. Neither I, nor anybody else, has the numbers for the revenue that would be brought in by a non-sweetheart impact fee. That is why impact studies are done by counties.
The Developer's puppet Commissioners enacted the 25% tax increase to cover the infrastructure costs arising from the Developer's county infrastructure. Common sense would tell you that a genuine impact fee would approximate that amount.
The point here is that the last Commissioner election was all about who would pay for the Developer's county infrastructure, and by about 2 to 1, the voters decided that the Developer would through a non-sweetheart impact fee.
It also doesn't matter whether or not the Developer can simply pass all the impact fees on to the new home buyers--which, by the way, he will not be able to do. If he could, do you seriously believe and his allies would have spent about quarter of a million dollars in a vain attempt to keep his puppets in office.
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